Re: Handling licenses

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 02:56:39AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
 > On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 01:10:31PM +0200, Roland Illig wrote:
 >  > Quoting http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/fixes.html#handling-licenses:
 >  > > The pkgsrc system, as a policy choice, does not label packages
 >  > > which have licenses that are Free or Open Source.
 >  > 
 >  > This seems to contradict the current pkglint behavior, which says that
 >  > ?Every package must define its LICENSE?. Since the text from the pkgsrc
 >  > guide is 9 years old, is it still up-to-date?
 > 
 > Yes...? Every package is supposed to declare its license, and the
 > licenses we know about are in licenses/. The policy choice is that we
 > don't decide which of those are Free.

Right, and I apparently can't read.

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David A. Holland
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